Me too! Me too!

I'm SO glad I'm not the only one who was thinking of the guinea pigs and wishing they were there as well.

ADORABLE. We have almost an identical blanket that’s brown, and we call it the kitty magnet. Nothing better than a little Cat on Lap! :)

Like just about everyone has, I say take him home. Both of our cats are rescue kitties. With our first one, she was pretty aloof and antisocial when we first brought her home. She had been neglected by her first owner, and then rescued, and then surrendered when her rescuer lost her home. So she had been through a lot…

Sidebar: I have just rekindled a childhood love of British history, and the Plantagenets/Tudors in particular. Any good recommendations on books, journals, etc. on the topic? I’ve been so busy with work, that by the time I’m ready to sit down and read for pleasure, I don’t know where to begin. I am (well, was) a…

This is really spot on. Conventional wisdom is that you “get over” loss, like you get over a cold, but anyone who has lost someone knows that isn’t true. As you say, it just gets further away. Your life is never the same, it’s never easier... You just learn to live differently.

Thank you for your thoughtful response and for sharing that FANTASTIC piece from Rookie. I read it twice. I will probably read it again. I also opened every linked piece Jenny mentions in it and am planning to read them. I really want to share this piece with my best friend, too. We’ve been friends for 25 years and…

Have you read “Dog Heaven,” by Cynthia Rylant? It’s a children’s picture book, but it’s really more for adults from a message standpoint. It brought me enormous comfort when my dog passed at 14. She also has a similar, but different one called “Cat Heaven.” Wishing you love, warmth, and peace. 💗

My two baby cakes.

You’re not alone. It’s the WORST and I hate it. I hate that I can’t zoom out and the text only displays like one comment at s time since I access Kinja from my phone. Ugh. Like another commenter said, it feels like I've clicked Large Print Kinja and I can't escape.

I love this thread and I love you for introducing this thread. I am delightedly reading these responses like, “MY PEOPLE!”

I hear this. The attraction piece is interesting to me, though. When I was younger and dating, I actively tried to date across all different races and ethnicities. This was motivated in part by living abroad (in retrospect - away from judging eyes?) and in part by curiosity.

Mark, you're a treasure.

I had Samantha and I CHERISHED her. I still have her and dress her in her Christmas dress and put her by our Christmas tree (shut up). I was delighted when they brought her back from being “archived,” BUT...

DAVID THE GNOME. Yes.

Ok, burning question that I’ve always wondered. Is your burner name polish like shoe polish, or Polish like from Poland? I literally think about this every time I star one of your comments. Have to ask.

Could I get a citation on that 50% figure? I don’t remember anyone in my freshman class at Yale having to take a remedial course in either subject. Granted, I did the Directed Studies program freshman year, so I was a bit insulated, but I would appreciate knowing where that figure comes from - and exactly what they…

Totally with you on this. The catharsis cry. It’s therapeutic!

I am a millennial female (born mid-80s), and I have worn a watch pretty much nonstop since the third grade. Mine is silver with gold accents so I can wear it with both types of jewelry. Not too big, round face, Seiko brand.

In my experience (tiny 8- and/or 10-seater planes in and around Costa Rica), this was not some sort of public shaming. I stood on a special scale, and the number was actually not visible to me or any of the other flyers. Instead, it displayed facing the other direction, for the single employee who was weighing…